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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: East "vs." West Snowboarders Suck!!! (more chair reference though)
- References: <19358.2b3051f0@ecs.umass.edu> <1992Dec19.024932.21608@sco.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 01:28:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.012831.14461@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec19.024932.21608@sco.com> kurtray@sco.COM
- (Kurt J. Raymond) writes:
- >Let's forget this wimpy debate of skiers vs. snowboarders - I'm
- >much more in favor of a discussion that draws regional boundary
- >lines, battle lines, rather than this ideological psycho-babble.
- >The boundary of which I speak is, of course, western skiing vs.
- >eastern skiing.
-
- Someone offend your ego or something?
-
- >As every informed skier knows, the skiing is vastly superior in
- >the West. After all, as it's been pointed out, the skier/snowboarder
- >controversy is rooted in the East. And who can blame the poor
- >wretches? If the only skiing within driving distance were as
- >poor as it is in the East, *I'd* be irritable to the point of
- >picking fights too!
-
- Nonsense.
- Lots of fine skiing on the East Coast. No need to ever head West.
- That's why Greeley sent the chumps West. Big flat plains and deserts.
- Naw, fine mountains in the East. Just rent The Deer Hunter, look at that
- fine snowy peak in the Allegeny Mtns. There must be some skiing on its
- slopes. The East has finer skiers, they know how to ski, especially on
- ice. Olympic territory. Fine place for skiing the East coast. No need
- to travel to the stealth of the deserts. Just sand dunes.
-
- Where the only cultural advantage is the ability to make a right turn on
- a red light.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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